#Marshall McLuhan

[cyberianpunks]

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments

#art #collage #footage #black and white #monochrome #design #aesthetic #text #marshall mcluhan #quote #media #pixels #patterns #literacy #surveillance

[thirdity]

When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage (with Quentin Fiore)

#perception #perspective #subjectivity #memory #past #present #future #time #quotes #McLuhan #Marshall McLuhan #The Medium is the Massage

[trans-neptunian-objects]

Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message

#marshall mcluhan

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[NOH Masks :: Rural Japan, Photo by Linda Butler]

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“And this is the old myth of Narcissus. The word Narcissus means narcosis, numbness, a drug; and Narcissus was drugged into thinking that that image outside himself was somebody else. Narcissus did not fall in love with his own image, he thought it was somebody else. And the same with us, in our technology and gadgetry and gimmickry and so on, we don’t think that is merely a part of our own physical organism extended out there, we’re like Narcissus, completely numb. Now when we put out a new part of ourselves, extend a new part of ourselves by technology into the environment, we protect ourselves by numbing that area. The more I looked at this the more I had difficulty explaining why people ignored it.” 

~ Marshall McLuhan [Ian Sanders]

#NOH Masks #Rural Japan #Linda Butler #Marshall McLuhan #ian Sander #Narcissus #numbness

[austinkleon]

The Marshall McLuhan epigraph that opens The Pricemaster

#the pricemaster #marshall mcluhan

[davidhudson]

Marshall McLuhan, July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980.

#marshall mcluhan

[oldshowbiz]

1970.

The Today Show did a week of broadcasts from Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa. Among the people interviewed by Barbara Walters and Joe Garagiola were Marshall McLuhan, Pierre Trudeau, and Wayne and Shuster.

#wayne and shuster #barbara walters #joe garagiola #pierre trudeau #marshall mcluhan #the today show #rare television #toronto #ontario #canada

[alchemisoul]

"People in the 90s, and people still today to some degree, although, in the 90s, it was more obvious were like, oh, we're building the World Soul as we all get network together. We'll see that we're all one and we'll have no choice, but to overcome our enmity and sort of become a global, a planetary civilization, which was a big Motif in New Age thinking - this sort of planetary Consciousness.

Um, and cool, groovy, you know. Like, "Uh, you know, we're all one", right? But, actually, The Global Village is a paranoid place. That was the thing that Marshall McCluhan talked about in the 60s. He said, yeah, we're moving towards a global village and people tended to think he meant sort of, you know, like in a kind of a Walt Disney way like, oh, it's a little village, and we're all happy and together.

No, no, that's not what he meant at all. He meant it was going to be a place where everyone was aware of everybody else's business. There's a lot of backbiting, envy, social tension. You know, so it's a mix - it's a deeply mixed bag.

And I was able to articulate in a way both the Utopian and, if you will, the Demonic side of this kind of global technology. But a more, I think a better figure rather than thinking of the sort of angel-demon tension is, the thing about technology, in particular, if it has a mythological identity - it's the trickster and the tricksters bring gifts. And they bring pranks.

They can be devilish, they can be celebratory and erotic. They can open the gates to the other dimensions, and they can fool you. So all of those kind of qualities from a mythological level, I think that's at play inside our technology and that this just hasn't changed since, you know, 25 years ago when I was writing Techgnosis - it manifests in different ways. There are different. balances."

- Erik Davis in an Interview on New Thinking Allowed with Jeffery Mishlove

#erik davis #marshall mcluhan #jeffery mishlove #techgnosis #the global village #philosophy #technology #the internet #myth #magic #mysticism #gnosis #communication theory #quote #writing #authors #public intellectuals #writer #writers #author #trickster #mythology

[teledyn]

#marshall mcluhan #the medium is the massage #john dewey #quentin fiore

[drawdownbooks]

This book is incredible! Seeing <—> Making: Room for Thought is an image-packed deep dive into McLuhan and Benjamin, a collaboration between philosopher Susan Buck-Morss, Adam Michaels, and Kevin McCaughey of Boot Boyz Biz. The volume makes theory visible in a captivating way, and traverses history, politics and aesthetics as well as visual culture. Shipping now!

Designed by Kevin McCaughey and IN-FO-CO (Adam Michaels, Shannon Harvey, V.E. Chen)

Published by Inventory Press, 2024

Softcover, 400 pages, 600 b&w images, 4.75 × 7.75 inches

ISBN: 978-1-94-175353-8

#Seeing <—> Making: Room for Thought #Boot Boyz Biz #Adam Michaels #Inventory Press #Kevin McCaughey #Susan Buck-Morss #Marshall McLuhan #Walter Benjamin #John Berger #graphic design and theory #illustrated theory books #graphic design books #2024 #Draw Down Books

[vesperalia]

"The Retina of The Mind's Eye" [Digital Collage; 2022]

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Inspired by, and a tribute to, David Cronenberg's "Videodrome" and Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium Is The Massage". "The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality, and reality is less than television." - Prof. Brian O'Blivion, ("Videodrome") “All media are extensions of some human faculty –psychic or physical.The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye,clothing is an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system." - Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium Is The Massage"

#Surreal #Collage #Surrealism #Technology #Digital #Virtual #Media #Mind #Perception #Senses #Videodrome #David Cronenberg #Marshall McLuhan #The Medium Is The Massage #Communication #Art Prints #Vesperalia #Artists on Tumblr

[noosphe-re]

Electric circuitry has overthrown the regime of "time" and "space" and pours upon us instantly and continuously the concerns of all other men. It has reconstituted dialogue on a global scale. Its message is Total Change, ending psychic, social, economic, and political parochialism. The old civic, state, and national groupings have become unworkable. Nothing can be further from the spirit of the new technology than "a place for everything and everything in its place." You can't go home again.

Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel, The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects

#quote #Marshall McLuhan #McLuhan #world #global #media #media theory #communications #technology #digital #computers #Quentin Fiore #Jerome Agel #The Medium is the Massage #The Medium is the Message #culture #time #space #social #social media

[thirdity]

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving towards the grand fallacy.

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media

#mistakes #error #instrumentalism #mechanism #norms #quotes #McLuhan #Marshall McLuhan #Understanding Media

[ufopilot-art]

"Art is whatever you can get away with." - Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium is the Massage." (mixed media, 2023)

#art #quotes #marshall mcluhan #i'm really happy with this one!

[vardirbirsebebi]

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[spaceintruderdetector]

‘War and Peace in the Global Village’ Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore 1968 (p.98)

#Marshall McLuhan #Quentin Fiore #philosophy #history #society